October 18, 2023
QUOTE
One cannot refute what one has not thoroughly understood.
--Leo Strauss
BIRTHDAYS
1926 – Chuck Berry, Singer-songwriter and guitarist
1927 – George C. Scott, Actor and director
1938 – Dawn Wells, Model and actress, Miss Nevada 1959
1939 – Lee Harvey Oswald, Assassin of John F. Kennedy
1952 – Chuck Lorre, Director, producer, and screenwriter
IN MEMORY
1931 – Thomas Edison, Engineer and businessman, invented the light bulb and phonograph
1973 – Leo Strauss, German-American political scientist, philosopher, and academic
1982 – Bess Truman, Wife of Harry S. Truman, 40th First Lady of the United States
2013 – Bum Phillips, Football player and coach
IN ON THIS DAY
1540 – Spanish conquistador Hernando de Soto’s forces destroy the fortified town of Mabila in present-day Alabama, killing Tuskaloosa.
1648 – Boston shoemakers form first American labor organization.
1867 – United States takes possession of Alaska after purchasing it from Russia for $7.2 million.
1922 – The British Broadcasting Company (later Corporation) is founded by a consortium, to establish a nationwide network of radio transmitters to provide a national broadcasting service.
1945 – The USSR’s nuclear program receives plans for the United States plutonium bomb from Klaus Fuchs at the Los Alamos National Laboratory.
1954 – Texas Instruments announces the first transistor radio.